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Honest to god, EU regulators feel like the last bastion of sanity left.
Like anything else, some times right, some times wrong.
This is a great “right” moment.
I dread the next “wrong” one.
None of these settings should be controlled by Microsoft. It’s my computer, Satya.
These systems are critical to serving ads/propaganda. This is a dark day for the free world
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Even MS themselves don’t want to deal with it anymore. Can’t blame them
Or Group Policy Editor?
GIVE IT TO ME YESTERDAY
Christmas came early this year
The headline is misleading. This Json file is staged but not ready until Microsoft actually releases the changes in March 2024
Microsoft and Apple pervasively install thier entire platform in their Operating Systems so you can’t just have what you need to have on one of their computers, you have the buy the whole platform.
The Linux Eco-system is valued at $100 Billion, has nearly 40 million LoC, and is now Global Mega-Corp Consortium Funded. Link to Linux Foundation Financial Report 2022, “Read The Report”, Page 13.
Top Sponsors:
- Microsoft
- Meta
- Intel
- Oracle
- Tencent
- Huawei
- Fujitsu
- Hitachi
- Ericsson
- Samsung
- NEC
- Qualcomm
- VMWare (Now Broadcom)
Notable Second Tier Sponsors:
- Blackrock
- WeBank (Facial Recognition only Chinese Bank)
- Alibaba Cloud
Notable Third Tier Sponsors:
- Apple
If we are headed for a global AI monolith or Bladerunner type future, it will surely run on Linux! It’s everywhere and Linux will never again be steered by the community.
Instead use and help make successful any Indie Operating System like Haiku, Aero, or Minix3 instead of literally working as the tinniest cog ever for a Global Mega-Corp Consortium.
You can also just use GhostBSD which is a superb Desktop BSD experience based off of stable FreeBSD that installs and works like Mint. Control your own kernel and everything about your BSD with NetBSD. Now is a great time to get into BSD with NetBSD 10 RC1. Learn it now and you’ll have an OS that when released does only what you want it to do.
Finally there is the fastest BSD, Dragonfly. I made a Dragonfly BSD setup script that will turn a $250 2019 Thinkpad T495 into a lightning fast programmer workstation that does only what you want it to, and hardened. It never even makes one call out to the internet unless you typed the command in or allowed it beforehand.
If you insist on using Linux, then use a distro with an independent kernel that let’s them know you would not like the Linux kernel which has been badly managed by the Dictator Linus, globally taken over.
This really should be on for everyone, not just when it detects you’re in the EU.
That seems like standard options why would they be disabled?
deactivate Bing in taskbar search
Stop, I can only get so erect.
Who am I kidding, I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago, and haven’t had to deal with such bullcrap.
Last week I ditched windows for linux on my last computer.
And yesterday and today have been spent working fruitlessly to mod Baldur’s Gate 3.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what’s going wrong. So far, I’ve gotten a grand total of zero mods to work. If I were still on Windows, I could use one of two or three separate mod managers.
Sadly, this new laptop didn’t come with Windows 10, only 11. Which was what fueled the drive to ditch it for linux.
Did you check out Lutris for mod managers? I know Vortex is on there and is supposed to work with all steam games.
A little detective work got me to this Linux specific mod manager that targets BG3 and CP2077 - https://github.com/CHollingworth/Lampray
Ah yeah, Lamp. I’ve not gotten it to work at all.
As for Lutris, I tried both Vortex and the BG3ModManager. Couldn’t get either working.
I even tried a straight wine install.
So I’ve been forced to do mod entries by hand. And even that isn’t working, but at least I’ve stopped crashing the game.
Fun fact about Lutris and BG3ModManager, apparently a recent update to Lutris broke compatibility. I’ve yet to track down which version, I’ve just seen posts on various forums from the last few weeks talking about it.
I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago
Ah the sweet smell of, “your computer is not ready for Windows 11. Find out what you can do.”
It is worth mentioning that changes you made to the IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json file won’t have effect in stable versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft has to roll out this new capability to the stable branch in March 2024.
It’s annoying that this is all the way at the bottom of the article. Good to know I can do all this, glad I didn’t attempt to change any of this now, because it’s pointless until these updates hit stable
Does this work for non EU?
That’s literally the whole point, but right now only in preview versions.
The way Windows buil-in text editor colors and formats JSON files in 2023…
I refuse to believe anyone ever opens microsoft notepad on purpose.
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Sweet, even less garbage to clutter up the ol gaming rig.
Maybe one day game devs will enable anticheat on Linux so I can finally uninstall the shit OS.
Maybe one day game devs will enable anticheat on Linux so I can finally uninstall the shit OS.
EasyAntiCheat is already there.
At this point it’s literally just easier to use any Linux distro
Suuure, let me know when Revit, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, OpenRoads Designer are operable and supported on Linux.
I knoooooooow. I know arcgis is working on it at least. I’m a geologist, a ton of our geospatial programs require windows.
But I’m about ready to experiment with a dual joot for my home set up! I really never need windows for that anymore
How did you get arc working on Linux?
See @applebusch@lemmy. world’s comment in this same chain.
Not many users need those.
Every person with a job needs some kind of app which doesn’t work on Linux. If you’re a teen still studying in school, then yeah, use Linux.
I just installed Ubuntu (the more mainstream ofnlinux distros) to replace my windows OS. I was greeted by a cryptic error. After a quick search for some tecno bable, i had to start on safe mode and install the video drivers.
Do you think a “regular user” would be able to do this?
Don’t use Ubuntu desktop, it’s really buggy and full of snaps. Please try Pop OS and you will come back and say how smooth it is, and how you loved it.
Yeah, i belive you (despite the ltt fiasco), but to say that any distro is ready for the average person is just wrong. Thats just my point
but to say that any distro is ready for the average person is just wrong.
Would an average person install Windows on their machine?
I’m honestly surprised that I’m going to say this, as I have not used this term and over a decade, but there’s a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) going on in the comments on this topic, trying to shape a certain narrative.
